Final Fantasy VII: The Musical
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the songs in this fic, nor do I own the characters or their histories.
Author's Note: The following fic was alot of fun for me to write. Because I wrote this as a musical, it is in script form. I hope no one minds. Italics refer to stage directions. Bold lettering is for songs. Bold italics means overlapping or echos. This fic takes place mainly 2 years after Aeris dies in the game. I wrote this before Advent Children came out. This is the first time I've ever posted a fic on-line and I hope everyone likes it. This is also a first draft, so please be gently. It also my plan to come back and rework whatever needs reworking.
Act I Scene 1
A few days after Avalanche saves the world. A girl with long brown hair wearing a pink dress washes ashore on a remote island. A child comes running in followed by a man.
Child: See Papa! I told you there was a girl on the beach!
Father rushes over to the girl and checks to see if she is still breathing.
Father: She's still breathing. Lets get her back to town.
Father picks up girl and carries her off stage. The child follows.
Act I Scene 2
A year and half later. Kalm, a bedroom over Tifa's new bar. Cloud is seated by the window. Tifa enters unnoticed by Cloud. He gazes out the window lost in thought.
Tifa: You're thinking about her again, right?
Cloud: Huh? Oh, hey Tifa. What did you say?
Tifa: I asked if you were thinking about Aeris again.
Cloud: ...
Tifa: That's what I thought. It's not your fault.
Cloud: ...
Tifa: Well, you should come down Barrett, Elmyra, and Marlene will be here soon.
Cloud: ...
Tifa: Right.
Tifa gives Cloud a long look before leaving him alone. Music starts. Lights come up on the other side of the door where Tifa is standing.
Tifa: sings
You were once my one companion.
You were all that mattered.
You were once a friend and sister,
Then my world was shattered.
Cloud: sings
Wishing you were somehow here again.
Wishing you were somehow near
Sometimes it seemed if I just dreamed
Somehow you would be here.
Tifa:
Wishing I could hear your voice again
Knowing that I never would
Dreaming of you helped me to do
All that you dreamed I could
Cloud:
Passing bells and sculpted angels,
Cold and monumental,
Seemed for you the wrong companions.
You were warm and gentle.
Tifa:
Too many years fighting back tears
Why can't the past just die?
Both:
Wishing you were somehow here again
Knowing we must say Good-bye.
Try to forgive, teach me to live,
Give me the strength to fly!
No more memories
No more silent tears
No more gazing across the wasted years
Help me to say good-bye.
Music ends. Lights out on bedroom. Tifa sighs and goes downstairs. Lights out on hall.
Act I Scene3
Girl with long brown hair and pink dress, without jacket, walks along the beach and kicks at the sand. She looks to the north. Child runs on.
Child: Ari! Hey Ari!
Ari: Yes?
Child: Papa says you're leaving. He says that you're going to leave us to try and find out who you are. Is that true?
Ari: Yes, somewhere out there some knows who I am. They may even be searching for me. They might even know my real name.
Child: oh...
Ari: Hey don't look so sad I'll come back and visit. You guys have been a great family to me this past year and half. I couldn't forget about you.
Child: Okay, but be careful and bring me a present.
Ari: you got it.
Music starts. Ari and child hug. Child runs off. Ari looks north again. She takes a deep breath as she makes her way to the docks.
Ari: sings
Heart don't fail me now
Courage don't dessert me
Don't turn back now that we're here
People always say life is full of choices
No one ever mentioned fear.
Or how the world can seem so vast
On a journey to the past
Somewhere down this road,
I know someone's waiting.
Years of dreams just can't be wrong.
Arms will open wide,
I'll be safe and wanted
Finally home where I belong.
Well, starting now I'm learning fast
On this journey to the past.
Home, Love , Family
There was once a time
I must've had them too.
Home, Love, Family,
I will never be complete
Until I find you!
Ari boards boat and makes her way to the bow.
One step at a time.
One hope then another.
Who knows where this road may go.
Back to who I was, On to find my future
Things my heart still needs to know.
Yes! Let this be your sign.
Let this road be mine
Let it lead me to my past
And bring me home at last!
Big finish! Lights out and music ends.
Act I Scene 4
Kalm, Tifa's bar. Barrett, Elmyra, and Marlene enter.
Barrett: Yo, how is anyone suppose to get any service around here!
Elmyra: Don't shout, honey. They know we're here.
Yuffie pops up from behind the bar.
Yuffie: Geez, I think everyone in town knows you're here.
Barrett: When did you get here? And what 're ya doing behind that bar?
Yuffie: Two days ago. Tifa went upstairs to try and coax Cloud down and she asked me to watch the place. HEY TIFA! There's a suspicious looking character that just walked in. Do you want me to get rid of him?
Barrett: Why ya little...
Barrett starts chasing Yuffie around the room.
Yuffie: Eek! He's dangerous too.
Tifa comes into bar via stairs.
Tifa: BARRETT! YUFFIE!
Both stop and stare at the ground.
Barrett: She started it.
Tifa shook her head and plopped down in a chair. Marlene climbed in her lap.
Barrett: Sorry, Tifa. Its just that...
Tifa: I know this time of the year is hard on all of us. I can't believe its been two years since...
Tifa begins to cry. Everyone is a little uncomfortable.
Barrett: Elmyra can ya take Marlene upstairs?
Elmyra: Sure thing. Come on sweetie.
Elymra and Marlene exit. Yuffie looks for a reason to leave.
Yuffie: uhh... I'll take your bags up for ya.
Yuffie grabs the bags by the door and dashes upstairs. Tifa sniffles.
Tifa: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make everyone leave. Its just that I can't cry around Cloud. I don't know how he'd react. But I can't help it. He acts like he's the only one who cared about her. It was the same thing last year when we went to visit her grave.
Barrett: Hey cheer up. Remember what life was like before. With the Shinra.
Flashback lighting. Midgar,. Music Starts. Aeris wears jacket for every flashback.
Aeris: sings
Alarm goes off at seven
And you start up town
You put in your eight hours
For the powers that have always been
Til its five pm
Barrett: Then, you go
Tifa, Aeris: Downtown
Tifa: Where the folks are broke
Both: You go Downtown
Aeris: Where your life's a joke
Both: You go downtown
When you buy your token and go
Aeris: Home to Skidrow
Tifa, Jesse, Elmyra: (home to Skidrow)
Barrett: Yes, you go
Tifa, Aeris, Jesse: Downtown
Biggs: Where the cabs don't stop
T, A, J: Downtown
Wedge: Where the food is slop
T, A, J: Downtown
All: Where the hotheads flop in the snow
Down on Skidrow
T, A, J:
Uptown
You cater to a million jerks
Uptown
You're messengers and mail room clerks
Eating all your lunches at the hot dog carts.
The bosses take your money and they break your hearts
Uptown
You cater to a million whores
You disinfect and rats are on their bathroom floors
Morning tribulation, afternoons a curse
And five o'clock is even worse
Barrett: That's when you go
All but Tifa: Downtown
Tifa: Where the guys are drips
All but T: Downtown
Tifa: Where they rip your slips
All but T: Downtown
Tifa: Where relationships are no go
Tifa, Barrett: Down on skidrow
All but T, B: (Down on skidrow)
Tifa, Barrett: Down on skidrow
All but T, B: (Down on skidrow)
Tifa, Barrett: Down on skidrow
All but T, B: (Down on skidrow)
All: Down on skidrow
Cloud:
Poor
All my life I've always been poor
I keep asking God what I'm for
And he tells me gee I'm not sure
Biggs:
Sweep that floor, kid-o
I started life as an orphan
A child of the streets
here on skid row.
Wedge:
He took me in
gave me shelter, a bed,
crust of bread, and a job.
Treats me like dirt.
Calls me a slob,
which I am.
Cloud: So, I live
All but C: Downtown
Cloud: That's your home address, you live
All but C: Downtown
Cloud: When your life's a mess, you live
All but C: Downtown
Cloud: Where depressions just status quo
All: Down on Skidrow
Cloud:
Someone show me a way to get out of here
Cause I constantly pray I'll get out of here.
Please won't somebody say I'll get out of here.
Someone give me my shot or I'll rot here
Cloud:
Show me how and I will, I'll get out of here
I'll start climbing uphill and get out of here.
Someone tell me I still could get out of here.
Someone tell lady luck that I'm stuck here.
All but C:
Downtown, there's no rules for us.
Downtown, cause its dangerous.
Downtown, where the rainbow's just a no show.
When you live
Cloudand Aeris:
Gee it sure would be swell to get out of here
bid the gutter farewell and get out of here
I'd move heaven and hell to get out of skid
I'd do I'd don't know what to get out of skid
But a hell of a lot to get out skid
People tell me there's not a way out of skid
but believe me I gotta get out of
All but C and A:
Downtown, where the sun don't shine
Downtown, that's the bottom line
Downtown
Downtown
Downtown
Downtown
Downtown
All: Skidrow
End flashback. Lights back on bar. Tifa looks at Barrett.
Tifa: You're right. We've all made a great new start. Besides we'll always remember Aeris and she'll always remember us. We just have to keep on living no matter what.
Barret: Thats the Tifa I know.
Lights dim and they freeze.
Act I Scene 5
Pin spot up on Ari. She is watching the waves beneath her.
Ari: What is pulling me north. I wish I could remember.
Lights out onAri. Lights come back up on Tifa's bar. Unfreeze.
Act I Scene 6
Tifa's bar. Tifa, Yuffie, and Marlene are behind the bar, talking and serving drinks. (Yes I know Marlene is now 6 just deal!) Barrett and Elmyra are seated, talking quietly at a back table. Cloud has yet to put in an appearance. Enter Reeve and the Turks. The bar goes quiet. Tension hangs thick in the room. Marlene smiles.
Marlene: How may I help you?
Tifa: Cait...I mean Reeve. Its good to see you. What are they doing here?
Reeve: They wanted to pay their respects. They weren't sure of the date last year since we weren't on speaking terms.
Barrett: Get that Shinra scum outta here!
Reno: Hey, cool it. Like the man said we wanted to pay our respects to Aeris.
Barrett: Like hell ya do! If it wasn't for all ya Shinra scum Aeris might be alive!
Yuffie: I say we get rid of them here and now for Aeris!
Elena: We had nothing to do with that! That was Hojo and Sephorith.
Tifa: Barrett, maybe they're telling the truth.
Barrett: Who cares. I don't see them apologizing for killing Biggs, Wedge, and Jesse. Or all the people in Sector Seven.
Reno: Those were orders.
Tifa: Barrett, calm down. Look you can stay and have a drink if you like. And anyone who wants to honor Aeris is welcome to come with us. We'll be taking the Highwind in the morning to Bone Village. We go by foot after that.
Barrett and Yuffie: TIFA!
Tifa: Oh shut up both of you.
Reeve: Cloud upstairs?
Tifa: Yep, just like last year.
Reeve: How are you holding up?
Tifa: Not well, I try to be strong for him.
Reeve: That's understandable.
About an hour later. The Highwind is heard landing outside the town of Kalm. Shortly after that Cid, Shera, Vincent and Red XIII enter. Everyone greets everyone, the Turks stay seated at the bar.
Elmyra: Well I should get this little one off to bed.
Marlene: But Mama I don't wanna!
Elmyra: Too bad. Tomorrow's going to be a long day.
Elmyra and Marlene exit. Barrett, Cid, Vincent, and Red XIII sit at a larger table to talk. Tifa and Yuffie go back to the bar. Shera stands awkwardly.
Cid: Shera! Sit down. You're making me crazy.
Shera sits but starts twisting her hands in her lap.
Cid: Shera! Stop that!
Tifa: Uhh... Shera, could you help us over here.
Cid: She won't be of much use!
Shera made her way over to the girls at the bar. The evening progressed. Several drinks later. Elena is sitting at far end of bar. Her face is dark. Red XIII is asleep beneath the table. Barrett and friends are casting looks at the Turks at the bar. Reno and Rude drink some more. Reeve lays passed out with his head on the bar.
Reno: I hate drinking in a quiet bar. We need music! How about it Tifa? Gives us a song.
Tifa: Why not? Anything to get rid of tension in the room.
Music starts. Tifa comes out from behind the bar.
Tifa: sings
Oom-pah-pah
Oom-pah-pah
Theres a little dity
They're singing in the city
Especially when they've
Been on the gin or the beer
If you've got the patience
Your own imaginations
Will tell just exactly
What you want to hear
Oom-pah-pah
Oom-pah-pah
That's how it goes
Oom-pah-pah
Oom-pah-pah
Every one knows
They all suppose
What they want to suppose
When they hear Oom-pah-pah!
Mr. Percy's shot glass
Would often have the odd glass
But never when he thought anybody could see
Secretly he'd buy it
And drink it on the quiet
And dream he was at home
with a girl on each knee.
Tifa, Yuffie:
Oom-pah-pah
Oom-pah-pah
That's how it goes
Oom-pah-pah
Oom-pah-pah
Every one knows
What is the cause
Of his red shiny nose
Could it be Oom-pah-pah!
All:
What is the point
Of his red shiny nose
Could it be Oom-pah-pah!
Oom-pah-pah
Oom-pah-pah
Oom-pah-pah
Oom-pah-pah
Oom-pah-pah
Oom-pah-pah
Tifa, Yuffie:
Theres a little dity
They're singing in the city
Especially when they've
Been on the gin or the beer
If you've got the patience
Your own imaginations
Will tell just exactly
What you want to hear
All:
Oom-pah-pah
Oom-pah-pah
That's how it goes
Oom-pah-pah
Oom-pah-pah
Every one knows
They all suppose
What they want to suppose
When they hear Oom-pah-pah!
Oom-pah-pah
Oom-pah-pah
That's how it goes
Oom-pah-pah
Oom-pah-pah
Every one knows
They all suppose
What they want to suppose
When they hear Oom-pah-pah!
Music ends.
Yuffie: Hey, I've got a song sings
The sun'll come out tomorrow.
Betcha bottom dollar that tomorrow
There'll be sun.
Just thinking about tomorrow
clears away the cobwebs and sorrow
Reno smacks Yuffie upside the head and the whole room cheers. Lights out.
Scene 7
Lights up outside by the Highwind. Shera is standing in the cold. Tifaenters behind her.
Tifa: Hey you okay?
Shera: Yeah I'm fine, He always gets like this when he's trying to hide his feelings.
Yuffie comes out of the shadows where she has been listening in.
Yuffie: Its still no reason to treat you like that. He's just awful to you. I say you should up and leave the jerk.
Music starts.
Shera: I couldn't do that.
Yuffie: Why not?
Shera: You're still young and its just that...sings
As long as he needs me
Oh, yes, he does need me
In spite of what you see
I'm sure that he needs me
Who else would love him still
When they been used so ill
He knows I always will
As long as he needs me
I miss so him much when he is gone
But when he's near me I don't let on
The way I feel inside
The love I have to hide
The hell I've got my pride
As long as he needs me
He doesn't say the things he should
He acts the way he thinks he should
But all the same I'll play this game his way
As long as he needs me
I know where I must be
I'll cling on steadfastly
As long as he needs me
As long as life is long
I'll love him right or wrong
And somehow I'll be strong
As long as he needs me
If you are lonely then you will know
When someone needs you you'll love them so
I won't betray his trust
Though people say I must
I've got to stay true just
As long as he needs me!
Lights out.
Act I Scene 8
Tifa's bar. Elena has retired to the Inn. Red XII and Reeve have gone upstairs. Only Reno and Rude sit at the bar. Barrett, Cid, and Vincent are still at their table with a fresh round of drinks that Cid had helped himself to behind the bar.
Reno: So how's that new girl of yours?
Rude: ... Good.
Reno: I can't believe you hooked up with such a goody goody.
Rude:...
Reno: No wide eyed eager wholesome innocent Sunday school teacher for me, that kind of gal spins webs no spider ever... music starts Now listen boy, A gal who trades on all that purity, merely wants to trade my independence for her security
sings and dances
The only affirmative she will file
Refers to marching down the aisle
No golden glorious gleaming pristine goddess
No, sir, for no Diana do I play faun
I can tell you that right now.
I snarl. I hiss.
How can ignorance be compared to bliss?
I spark. I fizz.
For the lady who knows what time it is.
I cheer. I rave.
For the virtue I'm too late to save.
The sadder-but-wiser girl for me
No bright eyed blushing breathless baby doll baby
No sir that kind of child ties knots no sailor ever knew
I prefer to take a chance on a more adult romance
No dewy young miss who keeps resisting
All the time she keeps insisting
No bright eyed wholesome innocent female
No sir why she's the fisherman I'm the fish you see
Plop!
I flinch. I shy.
When the lass with the delicate air walks by
I smile. I grin
When the gal with a touch of Sin walks in.
I hope and I pray.
For Hester to win just one more A.
The sadder-but-wiser girl's the girl for me
The sadder-but-wiser girl for me!
The whole room laughs and cheers.
Act I Scene 9
Ari sits on the boat looking north. A man dressed in black with long platinum hair and a long sword strapped to his waist enters behind her. He smiles. He waits a moment before saying anything.
Man: Miss?
Ari: Yes? She turns to face the man.
Man: I knew it. I knew it! It had to be you. Oh, Aeris, I thought you were dead.
Ari: Excuse me. Do I know you?
Man: You don't remember me?
Ari: I'm sorry, sir. I don't remember anything of my past.
Man: Aeris, love,
Ari: Is that my name? Aeris?
Man: Yes, you were a flower girl in the city of Midgar. You sold me a flower the first day we met.
Aeris: I'm sorry, sir. But what is your name?
Man: Sephiroth. I thought you were killed just when our love was starting to bloom.
Aeris: We were in love? Ugh! I hate not remembering anything or anyone! She begins to cry softly.
Sephiroth: Hey don't cry. We can be together now. I'll help you remember. We can do it together. You're not alone anymore.
Aeris stops crying and looks at him. He smiles at her and then he kisses her. She kisses him back. Lights out.
Act I Scene 10
Cloud paces the deck inside the hull of the Highwind. Yuffie stands to the side, head bent over ready to hurl. Cloud looks at her as a reminder of why he needed to keep moving. Tifa enters. Cloud starts doing squats.
Tifa: You should go out on deck and get some fresh air. Both of you.
Cloud: Are we there?
Tifa: Almost. Like I said. Yuffie get up stairs the air will help. You too Cloud.
Yuffie made her way outside leaving Cloud and Tifa alone.
Cloud: Okay I'll go, sometimes you act just like Aer...
Tifa nodded her head though it hurt her heart. Cloud nods back and follows Yuffie out the door. Music starts as Tifa watches him leave.
Tifa: sings
As long as he needs me
I know where I must be
I'll cling on steadfastly
As long as he needs me
As long as life is long
I'll love him right or wrong
And somehow I'll be strong
As long as he needs me
If you are lonely then you will know
When someone needs you love them so
I won't betray his trust
Though people say I must
I've got to stay true just
As long as he needs me!
Tifa exits. Reno steps out of the shadows where he had been standing the whole time. He watches Tifa leave.
Reno: He doesn't deserve her. All he talks about is a dead flower girl and she silently puts up with it. That Spiky headed dork is gonna lose the one living girl that cares about him that way.
Elena rushes in.
Elena: We're landing.
Reno waves to her signaling he'd be up in a bit. She leaves.
Reno: sings
The sadder-but-wiser girl's the girl for me
The sadder-but-wiser girl for me!
Lights out.
Act I Scene 11
Aeris sits on a bed in shell shaped house. The room was covered in flowers thanks to Sephiroth. The flowers make her feel happy like a piece of the puzzle that finally fit. But that was all that seemed to fit. Sephiroth enters.
Sephiroth: Is everything alright?
Aeris: Huh..oh yes. I was just thinking. If these people killed both of us how come we're not dead?
Sephiroth: Well after I returned to the life stream. The woman who bore me went mad.
Aeris: You mean your mother?
Sephiroth: Flinches Uhh...yes. Anyway she thought of nothing else but how to bring me back. She offered herself up in exchange for my life to the life stream.
Aeris: I'm sorry.
Sephiroth: You on the other hand are a miracle Your loving and caring spirit was given a second chance to stop those who wish to destory us.
Aeris: ...
Sephiroth: It will be alright. I will take our revenge and we can live a long and happy life.
The Lights go out and the house turns on a small turntable so that you see the back of the house to make the next set.
Act I Scene 12
The group walks into the forgotten city of the ancients. Cloud who is leading the group stops suddenly.
Tifa: Cloud what's wrong?
Cloud: He's here.
The group went silent at Clouds's words.
Tifa: He's dead.
Cloud: Not anymore. He's alive. And He's here.
Everyone looks around nervous or out of alertness.
Cloud: we need to get settled at one of the houses so we can protect the non-fighters. That house over there. And then we'll scout around for any signs of him. Barrett and Red you're with me.
Tifa had just about been ready to step up when Cloud had said Red's name. Now her eyes were furious, Everyone seem to notice but Cloud.
Cloud: We need a group to guard the non-fighters. Yuffie, Reeve and...
His gaze turned towards Tifa. But she gave him one of those looks.
Cloud: ...and Vincent. That means Tifa and Cid...
Reno: and me. Will be together.
Cloud and Yuffie: NO!
Barrett: Hell no! Ya ain't going with Tifa.
Tifa: He can come if he wants! Which makes the other group Elena and Rude.
Cloud didn't like the idea anymore than Barrett. But once Tifa had made up her mind there was no changing it.
Elena: But Reno...
Reno: What you two can handle it and Miss Lockheart's group was short a member.
Elena: But now our group is short a member.
Reno: I thought you were better trained then that, Laney. You don't need me holding your hand the whole way. Besides its not like we're going to find anything.
Cid: You only get to be in our group cause Tifa said ya could. Otherwise I would never work with Shinra scum like you.
Cloud: Fine, Vincent take your group along with Elmyra, Marlene, and Shera to the house. Turks left. Tifa you guys take the right and we'll head straight ahead.
Everyone went their separate ways. Leaving Reno, Cid and Tifa.
Cid: I know you were mad at Cloud but did we really have to bring the electric red head along?
Tifa: Well three is better than two.
Reno: Thank you, Miss Lockheart.
Tifa and Cid: Whatever.
Tifa: Lets get started. I just hope Cloud is wrong.
Reno and Cid: Me too.
Lights out.
Act I Scene 13
Avalanche base. Vincent and Reeve are relaxed watching the perimeter of the house. Yuffie paces back and forth.
Vincent: Yuffie, sit down.
Yuffie: How can you two just sit there? I hate being left behind. I want to be out there fighting with Cloud or anybody. Even the Turks! Instead we have to sit here and wait for the action to come to us. I mean what if it never comes. What if all the guys out there get to have all the fun of kicking Sephiroth's ass without us.
Vincent and Reeve: Sit down, Yuffie!
Cross fade to the Turks.
Elena: I think we're on a wild goose chase. I mean didn't those guys already kill Sephiroth. How the hell does someone come back from the dead?
Rude:... He did it once before. We all thought he died at the Nibelheim Mako Reactor, but then he showed up at Shinra, Inc. ready for revenge.
Elena: I guess. I still think that Spiky head is nuts. He wasn't all that sane when he fought Sephiroth the last time. Do we need to go over the events at the Temple of the Ancients and the Northern Crater.
Cross fade to Cloud's group.
Barrett: So... Cloud, What have ya and Tifa been up to?
Cloud: ...
Barrett: Yo, Cloud, ya hurt her...
Cloud:...
Barrett: Damnit Cloud! I'm serious. Tifa doesn't deserved to be hurt like that. She needs someone to care about her, someone she can rely on.
Cloud: Are you saying I don't care about Tifa?
Barrett: If ya do, ya certainly don't show it.
Cloud: Why the hell do you think I stayed with your pathetic little group? To save the world? To have fun blowing up Mako reactors? To piss off Shinra? No, for Tifa!
Barrett: ...
Red: If you two are finished we need to keep searching for Sephiroth.
Cross fade to Tifa's group
Reno: So do you think Spiky Hair has finally cracked?
Tifa: What the hell's that suppose to mean?
Reno: Nothing, just that Spiky Hair is wigging over the fact that he THINKS Sephiroth is alive. Don't you think its kind of weird that it would take a year and half before he tried to take revenge on Spiky Hair. And what about you guys, Spiky Hair gets a chill and don't think twice about it.
Tifa: It took him five years before taking revenge on Shinra. And of course we think about it. But we trust CLOUD!
Reno: Whatever, but I don't see why you stay with Spiky Hair….
Tifa:…CLOUD! His name is Cloud!
Cid has been standing off to the side while the two argue. They continue to fight as we go into a pin spot on Cid.
Cid: I wonder. If we didn't follow Cloud like dogs…. I bet I would've made a great leader. We would've been great with me training them.
He day dreams. Light change to show Cid's fantasy. Avalanche team stand backs facing the audience. Cid spots the group as music starts. The whole number is done with fight training with Cid in charge.
Cid: Okay, Troops About face!
Team turns around To face Cid.
Cid: Sings
Lets get down to business to defeat the Turks
Did they send me sissies and smart ass jerks?
You're the saddest bunch I've ever met
But you can bet before we're through
Mister, I'll make a man out of you
Points lance at Yuffie
Tranquil as a forest, But a fire within
Once you find your center, You are sure to win
You're a spineless pale pathetic lot
And you haven't got a clue
Some how I'll make a man out of you
Cloud: I'm never gonna catch my breath
Red XIII: Say good-bye to those who knew me
Reeve: Boy, was I fool in school for cutting gym.
Tifa: This guys got 'em scared to death
She is standing off to the side laughing at the others
Yuffie: Hope he doesn't see right through me.
Barrett: Now I really wish that I knew how to swim.
Group: Be a man
Cid: You must be swift coursing river
Group: Be a man
Cid: With all the force of a great Typhoon
Group: Be a man
Cid:With all the strength of raging fire
Mysterious as the dark side of the moon.
Time is racing towards us till the Turks arrive
Heed my every order, and you might survive
You're unsuited for the rage of war
So pack up go home you're through
How could I make a man out of you
Off stage: Be a man
All: You must be swift coursing river
Off stage: Be a man
All: With all the force of a great Typhoon
Off stage: Be a man
All: With all the strength of raging fire
Off stage: Be a man
All: Mysterious as the dark side of the moon.
Off stage: Be a man
All: You must be swift coursing river
Off stage: Be a man
All: With all the force of a great Typhoon
Off stage: Be a man
All: With all the strength of raging fire
Off stage: Be a man
All: Mysterious as the dark side of the moon.
Sequence ends with Cid being tackled by a monster. When the monster attacks the lights go back to normal and Tifa and Reno prepare for battle. Cid kicks the monster off of him and stands next to the others. The Monster knocks Cid's lance away as he tries to attack. Tifa runs to pick it up. But the monster is right behind. It raises its claw but it falls to the ground, dead with an electric shock. Tifa looks up in surprise. Reno smiles at her. She smiles back. He reaches down to help her up. When their hands touch the lights go out.
Act I Scene 14
Avalanche base. All groups have returned. Cloud paces frustrated. Tifa watches Cloud from a table that she sits at with Reno. Reno has his eyes on Tifa. Barrett and Cid watch Reno their eyes dark and positions defensive. Yuffie sits on a pile of boxes swinging her legs back and forth and blowing her bangs out of her face. Red XIII sits next to Vincent who leans against the wall. Elena sits on the stairs, Rude stands behind her. Reeve is seated on the floor next to Red.
Tifa: Cloud relax, maybe not finding any sign of Sephiroth is a good thing.
Cloud: He's out there, planning something. And…
Cloud slams his fist into one of the boxes Yuffie is on. She tumbles off in surprise.
Yuffie: Hey watch it!
Cloud ignores her. Yuffie huffs and stomps upstairs, stepping on Elena's hand and pushing past Rude. Barrett laughs and Elena scowls at him.
Tifa: We should all get some rest. Tomorrow is going to be a long day.
Elena and Rude go upstairs. Reno nods to Tifa and goes upstairs as well. Yuffie comes running down.
Yuffie: Ewww! There are Turks up there!
Tifa, Barrett, Cid, Red, Reeve and Cloud all laugh.
Vincent: Remember last time you said that Tifa?
Tifa: What? "ewww! There are turks up there" Tifa does her best Yuffie impression and Yuffie glares.
Vincent: No, "We should all get some rest. Tomorrow is going to be a long day." It was the day Aeris ran off alone.
The room goes silent. The lights start to reflect a flashback. Cloud notices the change in lighting in the room. Music starts.
Cloud: Hey what's with the lights and music?
Tifa smacks him upside the head.
Tifa: It's a flashback number stupid!
Cloud: oh
Group 1 - Barrett, Vincent, Red XIII, Yuffie Group 2 - Tifa, Aeris, Cait Sith, Cid
Sephiroth: sings
One day more!
Another day, another destiny.
This never-ending road to Calvary
These men who seem to know my crime
Will surely come a second time.
One day more!
Cloud:
I did not live until today.
How can I live when we are parted?
Sephiroth: One day more.
Cloud and Aeris:
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away
And yet with you my world has started!
Tifa: One more day all on my own.
Cloud and Aeris: Will we ever meet again?
Tifa: One more day with him not caring.
Cloud and Aeris: I was born to be with you.
Tifa: What a life I might have known...
Cloud and Aeris: And I swear I will be true
Tifa: But he never saw me there!
Barrett: One more day before the storm!
Cloud:Do I follow where she goes?
Barrett: At the barricades of freedom!
Cloud: Shall I join my brothers there?
Barrett: When our ranks begin to form.
Cloud: Do I stay; and do I dare?
Barrett: Will you take your place with me?
Chorus: The time is now. The day is here.
Sephiroth: One day more!
Rufus:
One day more to revolution
We will nip it in the bud!
We'll be ready for these schoolboys
They will wet themselves with blood!
Yuffie:
Watch 'em run amuck
Catch 'em as they fall!
Never know your luck
When there's a free-for-all.
Here a little 'dip'
There a little 'touch'
Most of them are goners
So they won't miss much!
Group 1: One day to a new beginning.
Group 2: Raise the flag of freedom high
Group 1: Every man will be a king
Group 2: Every man will be a king
Group 1: There's a new world for the winning
Group 2: There's a new world to be won
Both: Do you hear the people sing?
Cloud: My place is here. I fight with you!
Overlapping
Sephiroth: One day more.
Cloud and Aeris:
I did not live until today.
How can I live when we are parted!
Tifa: One more day all on my own
Cait Sith:
I will join these people's heroes
I will follow where they go
I will learn their little secrets I will know the things they know.
Sephiroth: One day more
Cloud and Aeris:
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away.
And yet with you my world has started
Tifa: What a life I might have known
Rufus:
One more day to revolution.
We will nip it in the bud.
We'll be ready for these schoolboys.
Yuffie:
Watch 'em run amuck, catch 'em as they fall
Never know your luck when there's a free for all.
Sephiroth:
Tomorrow we'll be far away
Tomorrow is the judgment day.
All:
Tomorrow we'll discover
What our God in Heaven has in store
One more dawn! One more day! One day more!
Curtain. End of Act 1.
Author's Note: Well I hoped you liked Act I. Acts II and III should be up shortly I just have to edit them. Also if you are worried by the lack of description of actions, emotions orlocations, I'd like to repeat this iswritten like a script so those things are left to the imagination.And I'd like to say a quick thank you to my sister Rosemary who sat down with me and helpped me tweak and gave me ideas along the way.